Cage Match 2013 Round Two: Medusa vs. Grendel

By Matt Staggs on March 13, 2013

The Contestants

MedusaGreek Mythology

Age:

Unknown

Race:

Monster

Weapons / Artifacts:

Her face

Special
Attack:

Can stop anything in its tracks. Her hair is made of snakes and she is so ugly that whoever looks at her turns into stone. Medusa’s body has wings with broad round heads, serpentine locks of hair, large staring eyes, wide mouths, the tusks of swine, lolling tongues, flared nostrils, and sometimes short coarse beards

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3 Responses to “Cage Match 2013 Round Two: Medusa vs. Grendel”

As much as I enjoy the style for the Grendel fights, this is a done deal. Grendel is too much of a beast to reason a way around Medusa’s gaze, so he either fights blind, or he’s stone. Excellent write up.

I’ll start by saying that I haven’t read Beowulf, but it seems pretty hard to beat Medusa’s gaze without either foreknowledge or a lot of luck. If she gets the jump on you, it’s over. So my vote goes to Medusa. (Though I shall miss the epic, epic poem write-up).